Jacques Marcus Prevost
BIRTH
1736
Geneva, Switzerland
DEATH
Colony of Jamaica, British Empire
FAMILY
FATHER:
Augustin Prevost
(1695-1740)
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Prevost, Jacques Marcus
(1736-1781)
Jacques Marcus Prevost (1736-1781) was a military officer and the spouse of Theodosia Prevost Burr. Theodosia Prevost Burr was a social hostess whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Jacques Marcus Prevost to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Born in Geneva, Switzerland and later dying in Colony of Jamaica, British Empire, the course of this life reflects the movement of Revolutionary-era families across colonial, national, and sometimes Atlantic settings. Including Jacques Marcus Prevost in HistoryGPS records the family, professional, and social networks that connected individuals to the wider Revolutionary generation.
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WIFE
Theodosia Prevost Burr
(1746-1794)
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DIED:
Colony of Jamaica, British Empire
The exact date and place of Jacques Marcus Prevost’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Jacques Marcus Prevost with work or public activity as a soldier. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.